Yaesu: Mysterious Parts

[richardrosa]

Greetings All.

I Am looking at the contents of new Yaesu FTD5 box and trying to determine what two of the enclosed parts are used for.

The first is a piece of black plastic about 1" wide by 2" long, with two vertical posts in the center. The tips of the post are painted silver.
The bottom is flat, and would appear to be some sort of support for something.
There is no mention of this device in the manual, or in any of the Yaesu options.
It does not appear to fit anything associated with the radio or attachments.
Any ideas on what this is for?

The other enclosed part is a standard USB cable.
Although it fits the connection on the radio, communication through this cable/port does not appear to be possible.
When the radio is connected through this radio on my Linux machine,
it shows up as a YAESU MUNSUN FT-1D connection, but no USB, Serial or ACM port is created.
I spent 1/2 a day installing Windows 10 to see if Yaseu's ADMS software would function.
Windows is unable to find a driver for the connection, and the ADMS software times out attempting to connect.
Based on the radio's advanced documentation it would appear that a DIFFERENT cable is needed (SCU-55, SCU-19 or CT-169).
What is this cable used for?

Thanx,

Richard Rosa

 

[doc62]

the two prong piece is a European power plug. The charger's NEMA plug can be removed and replaced with that. At least that's the way it is on my FT-60's charger

 

[richardrosa]

the two prong piece is a European power plug. The charger's NEMA plug can be removed and replaced with that. At least that's the way it is on my FT-60's charger

Aha! That explains it. Its a shame I never traveled in Europe, otherwise it would have been obvious. One mystery solved.
Thank you!

Richard Rosa

 

[AK9R]

Are you in the U.S.? Did you buy this FT5D from a U.S. dealer?

The USB cable supplied with the radio is for updating the firmware. I do not believe that it can be used to program the radio. There's a driver for that cable on the Yaesu website.

You need the SCU-39 (Windows 8.1 or 10) or SCU-57 (Windows 8.1, 10, or 11) to program the radio with ADMS-14. I know that RT Systems also sells a cable for programming the FT5D with their software.

Rather than using a cable, you may want to consider programming the radio using a micro-SD card.

 

[doc62]

As for the European power plug, my Ft-90 came with that as well as the NEMA plug and I got mine from HRO.

 

[richardrosa]

Are you in the U.S.? Did you buy this FT5D from a U.S. dealer?

The USB cable supplied with the radio is for updating the firmware. I do not believe that it can be used to program the radio. There's a driver for that cable on the Yaesu website.

You need the SCU-39 (Windows 8.1 or 10) or SCU-57 (Windows 8.1, 10, or 11) to program the radio with ADMS-14. I know that RT Systems also sells a cable for programming the FT5D with their software.

Rather than using a cable, you may want to consider programming the radio using a micro-SD card.

SD Card appears to be the ONLY way to program this radio.

Unlike most radios with SD cards, this one uses Binary files (rather than CSV).
Although I managed to figure out most of the formatting of the file,
there appears to be a checksum of some sort, so a binary editor or code processor CANNOT be used.
If the radio attempts to read a modified file (without the correct checksum) it will do a factory reset

So the ADMS software is it for updating the SD card.
Fortunately, it DOES run in a Wine configuration, so I was saved the grief of having to deal with Windows..

Although a bit easier to enter memory info than the 3" touch screen,
I do not relish the though re-typing the hundreds of frequencies that have already been placed in CSV format files.
With a bit of work, I determined the format the ADMS requires, and wrote a script to convert my CSV files to ADMS format.

This was NOT as easy as it should have been.
ADMS is VERY fussy about data. Case IS important. Some fields MUST be a certain value based on the frequency being written.
If any field is in error, the program will display an error message with NO indication of what record or field was in error,
and refuse to load the ENTIRE file.

All in all, a VERY time consuming process, but the radio's memories are now set.
Unless there is a major shift in repeater or public service frequencies, there should be little need to repeat this pain...

Although the radio itself seems to perform OK, I have to say that ICOMs are a LOT easier to program....


Thanx for your help.

Richard Rosa

 

[AK9R]

SD Card appears to be the ONLY way to program this radio....So the ADMS software is it for updating the SD card.

Both Yaesu and RT Systems sell a programming cable for this radio.

I use RT Systems YPS-FT5D to update the SD card.